Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| THE San Francisco Chronicle Gays that U.s.
| 0oc gallons of aniline dye were shipped INTO
| California in 1886. which was used in aduiter-
ating the wine N ade in the State.
A So GREENBACK appeared in the till of a
Newago (AIich.) bank the other day bearing
the following inscription: Here she goes
save your salary-dOn't gamble-Dever play
! faro bank-the last OF a fortune OF S!O,0oV.
IN Harborville, n. s., on the Bay Of Fundy,
there are living ninety persons over 70 years
| of age. or these there are twenty couples
| who have been married fifty years or more,
and of these five of the husbands are brothers..
A YOUNG WOMAN of Norfolk, Va. who WAS
becoming blind from cataract, took the ad-
vice of an old negro woman. put drop OF
molasses in each eye every day, and was COM
| petely cured. So says the Norfolk Land
mark.
AN interesting double wedding is reported
! from Shelby. N. c., where, says the dispatch,
| Hillary Jennings was married to Mrs. Julia
| Jolly. and the brldegroom's son was united in
| marriage with Mira, JOlly'B daughter, Kew.
| Samuel Hunter otliciated.
WHEN the Salvation Army in East Port
land halted in front of a saloon the other day
| and began singing lines. the words of which
were, ut is water we want. not beer,' the
saloon keeper, genial and obliging person,
! turned the hose on them.
A MAN, his wife and his daughter, each
carrying an infant but three month old,
! triplets, with another child about years old,
| all bound for the Beaver county poorhouse,
| were one of the unusual sights on the plat
form OF the station at Beaver Falls, Pa, the
other day.
JOHN HARRIGAN and his rope have become
| famous in San Francisco. With the same
| piece of rope John has pulled twenty eight
people out of the water in the last three years.
lis hnat a VIZ in lima
about year ago, when he fished three child
rem and tramp out of the water.
KINCH KITCHEN, living near Tallapoosa,
says he has not been the least mad or vexed
in fifteen. years. Mr.. Kitchen says fifteen
years ago he swore off from getting mad and
has kept his resolution from that day till
this Probably there not another kitchen
in the country with similar record.
THE Fairfield tMe.) Journal tells of man
who succeeded in splitting a hurricane. See
| ing 1t coming straight toward his barn he
| took two boards and. holding them with his
| best hold before the barn. the ends together
IN front of him so that they formed sort Of
wedge. he spread the hurricane apart, so
| that it only took of two corners of the
| barn.
THE Vienna correspondent of Science
writes: 81 was recently present at the trials
made with a new pistol invented by Mr.. Mar
| Gus, a distinguished mechanical engineer. In
| this invention the use of cartridge is dis
| pensed with, the bullet itself being prepared
| with an explosive. But IN spite of this ex-
posIve nature of the bullet, its shape IS not
| altered by the explosion"
AMONG the Montana Blackfeet Indians
| polygamy is still rife. though the redskins are
beginning TO abandon it-that is to say. the
Indians take no more plural wives. When
| buffalo were plenty, when more squaws
| meant more buffalo robes tanned in given
| time, pOlygamy was In high favor among
| these Indians. Now, however, they find that
| more than one wife is a burden, and are not
| inclined to increase the number.
MRS. T. j. HAMMOND, OF Brunswick, Mo.
owns very knowing cat 1t has been
taught to perform a number of tricks, one of
| which is to ring a chestnut bell, and it fire.
| quently turns the laugh on Mrs. Hammond
| by making the bell Jingle when she is re-
| counting some freak of its intelligence.
| When the cat feels that mouse would be an
! addition to It's bill of fare it brings the tran
| to Mrs. Hammond to be set and then goes
| frequently to see If the desired mouse has
been caught. When such is the case the trap
| is again taken to some one by puss who viii
| remove the mouse for it. 1t makes no effort
to catch mice in the ordinary way.
PROF. DR.. MAUTHNER, the distinguished
| Vlennese oculist, was summoned by telegraph
to Kieff the other day to attend wealthy
| patient. At the Russian border the official
| asked him whether he was Catholic. and
| WIEN bu6 DOCbOT TepIleu bHdI ne WAS q He
| brew, he was told to get off the train, as for
eign Jews were not allowed to enter Russia,
| DIR. Mauthner explained the object of his
visit, but in vain; and the tram went on with
out him. He now telegraphed to his patient.
| and several hours passed before the latter had
been able to get permission for him to come
When on his way home he received a tele-
| gram from the Governor of Odessa to come
and attend him; but the Doctor sent back
| word that he had had enough of Russia and
| returned to Vienna.
THE first report of the Chief Of the Rhode
Island State police as to the working of the
prohlbitory law, which went into effect on
July last. shows that in Providence drunk
enness decreased AZ per cent. as compared
| with the corresponding time in 1885, The
commitments to the State worKhouse whose
| inmates are largely victims of the intempe-
rate use of intoxicating liquors, By the same
| comparison show falling of of more tn an
| one-half resulting in a large saving to the
State in the item of board alone. In the city
| of Newport there has been decrease OF abouit
| 50 per cent. In drunkenness. in Woonsockot a
| decrease of 20 per cent, IN Johnston de-
| crease of 40 per cent, in East Providence n
decrease of 45 per cent, in Lincoln a decrea se
| Of 40 per cent. The report is before the Rhode
Island Legislature.
A GREAT many stories of good little bows are
| told, and some of them are not true But
some of the sayings of Master Stuart Robson
Crane, the little son of Crane, the comedian.
are clever enough to be true. They have been
| published from time to time by Chicago
newspaper; How it got them was a mystery
until the editor recently impaired in conf
dence to the father the information that the
sayings were cent him by Lawrence Barrett
VINO is very proud OF the boy, and who by the
way, has nearly spoiled him by betting him
and giving him ponies, dogs and carts and
moral Lectures Last summer, when Edwin
Booth visited Cohasset, where Robson and
| Crane live, the tragedian took Master Crane
on his knee, and in his sad, thoughtful wav.
said: "Wel, my little man. suppose Won
too, Will want to be an actor when you are
| big enough" NO. answered the bow ~
| don't want to be an actor when / grow UNI
want to be like my uncle Lawrence Barrett"
PRINCE BIsMARCK's second speech is chiefly
interesting because of his declaration that.
although he expected to live three years
| longer, he expected to die before seven had
passed. He gave this as one of the reasons
| why he refused to interfere with the septen
nate Prince Bismarck ia now 49, He an
| tcipates death between 1890 and 1884 That
is to say, he expects to live till he IS rs and to
| die before he is So IL is not every one who
calculates so closely as to the probable dura-
| ton of his existence. 1t would be a very in
| teresting subject to investigate how far the
| plans OF statesmen are thus modified by their
| expectations of life. 1t used to be said that